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占 (zhàn, zhān) is built from two components: 卜, signifying a crack in an oracle bone, and 口, a hole drilled in the bone or shell to induce such cracks when heated. This structure mirrors the ancient Chinese divination technique in which fortune-tellers would drill holes, apply heat, and then interpret the resulting crack patterns on shells and bones to foretell the future. From this core act of reading omens, the character extended to the general ideas of observing and guessing. In later development, 占 also took on the separate, widely used meanings of seizing territory and of representing a proportion or percentage of a total.
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他占了一个座位。
这本书占有重要地位。
敌人占据了城市。
他喜欢占卜未来。
不要占别人便宜。
这块土地占了大片面积。
他的意见占据了讨论的主导地位。
这项技术占据了市场的大部分份额。
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